Thursday, October 03, 2013

Caesar’s Schools Turning Kids into Good Little Romans

My job took me inside the local public Middle School, where I saw a
large sign in a hallway, emblazoned with the slogan, “When You
Believe in Yourself, Nothing is Impossible.”As I thought about it the rest of
the day, it occurred to me that this is a classic example of how and why
“religious neutrality” or pure secularism is impossible.

Even a
blathering, non-offensive piece of self-esteem propaganda like this shows why
the idea of banishing religion from the public school system is a goof-headed
scheme, as doomed to failure from the get-go as Wile E. Coyote’s mail order
rocket-skates. It’s like standing in a shower hoping to wash all the water off
your body: Get rid of one religious notion by replacing it with another, and
then call it secularism.

“When You
Believe in Yourself, Nothing is Impossible.” That sentence is loaded with moral
and metaphysical import. It isn’t religiously neutral. It is the religion of
the ‘OWN’ network. In fact, it is itself a statement of faith, unproven and
scientifically unsupported.

I suppose
the hymn that should accompany this proselytizing would be that ridiculous
anthem, “I Believe I Can Fly.” (I believe I can touch the sky!) You do? Really?
Seek help, my friend.

But, you say
to me, nobody really believes that is true. So why would we feed our kids
useless slogans that we know to be false? Is that the purpose of education?

The fact
that the sign makes no mention of a Divine Being doesn’t mean it’s not
religious. Buddhism, for instance, is a classic, world religion that doesn’t
postulate any belief in a god.

You can have
a god without referring to it as such. In the faith-statement above, belief in
God is simply replaced by faith in oneself, and by a belief that faith in
oneself is the ultimate power, apparently capable of doing anything, or at
least, of assuring that all your dreams will come true.

Jesus: “With God all things are
possible.” (Matthew 19:26)

Public School Priesthood: Without God
all things are possible…as long as your faith is directed inwardly.

Solomon: “He who trusts in his own
heart is a fool.” (Proverbs 28:26)

Public School Priesthood: He who
believes in himself is on the right track.

The great 20th Century philosopher, Francis Schaeffer,
predicted this sort of thing a generation ago in his classic work, How
Shall We Then Live? He foresaw that a society that
seeks to replace religion with pure materialism will eventually make
unwarranted leaps into what he called, “Non-reason.” He understood that humans
are not built for atheism. If you remove the one, true God, the God of the
Bible, from His throne, the reality is that a horde of other things will see
that and say hungrily, “Ooo, look! An
empty throne!”

Even when
the public schools are not actively promoting Islam (which many are) and other
abominations like witchcraft and Obama-dolatry; even when they are being good
little boys and girls and toeing the official
secular/humanist/naturalistic-materialist party line, they must (because
neutrality is a myth, a chimera) become the official, state-run, tax-supported
church. This is bad. It’s bad even if the catechizing of your children amounts
to nothing more than feeding them banal inanities like, “Believe in yourself.”

But what
makes it worse is that Christian parents often answer the false faith of the
public schools with their own ridiculous slogans. Like, “I can cancel out what
my kids are hearing for forty hours a week with an hour of Sunday School and a
morning worship service.” Or, “My little Johnny is different. He’ll be salt and
light in his class, a missionary to his fellow second-graders.”

There is no
neutrality, and the Bible is clear that there really is a conspiracy that
exists for the purpose of doing horrible things to you and your kids (e.g.
Psalms 2; Ephesians 6.) That’s why it’s called spiritual warfare and not table
tennis.

If you
agree, please share these posts with your friends, family and co-workers.
The only way to defeat the lies and propaganda of an evil government and its
controlled media, is to spread the truth.

About Me

I am a first generation American. My ancestors immigrated from Europe, legally I might add. My education is the equivalent of two years of college. No degree, so if you find that I am grammatically challenged, please forgive me. I am however, very well read in philosophy, political science and American history. I write about many subjects, mostly political. Sometimes about what chaps my hide, or just to provoke thought. I have been accused of being a right wing Christian conservative extremist, so I am coming out of the closet. I confess, yes, I am. I believe that it will take the power of God and a lot of extreme people like myself to grab hold of the steering wheel of this country and take a sharp turn to the right in order to stop this great nation from being buried in liberal socialism and tyranny. I welcome your comments, positive or negative. You can e-mail me at writedeandrea@hotmail.com or leave a comment at the bottem of my articles.